I'm excited about this. Congratulations to puppet labs for this milestone! PS, when are you selling stock ? =]
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Nigel Kersten <ni...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: > This isn't an official press release, and you shouldn’t read it that > way.[1] > > This is Puppet Labs letting the rest of our community (particularly > those of you who didn’t hear us talk about this at Puppet Camp this > year) know exactly what we’re doing in the near future so that any > upcoming press releases are not a surprise. > > We are going to be releasing a bundled version of our open source > products called Puppet Enterprise early next year as a *commercial* > product. > > This is a complete stack of all the dependencies required to run a > scalable and integrated Puppet installation, in a self-contained > location with a simple yet powerful install process. All of the > software in the stack will remain licensed as open source. The value > add will be in the ease of installation, the out of the box > integration and the ability to easily scale. > > I do want to explicitly make people understand that this doesn’t > change our commitment to open source and community, particularly > Puppet itself. I believe we’ve been quite clear for a long time that > Puppet Labs will be releasing commercial products as well as open > source ones. > > Open source is a critical part of our business strategy. We are not > working to an Open Core model, we are simply producing open source > products as well as commercial products. > > I am positive that Puppet will continue to be an awesomely useful open > source product. We will not be blocking functionality in Puppet in > order to only provide it in Puppet Enterprise. > > On the other hand, I really don’t want to give the impression that we > have a master plan that we’re slowly revealing to you all. We don’t > know exactly how this will all shake out, and I think I’d be pretty > stupid to claim otherwise. > > For those of you who are interested in evaluating Puppet Enterprise, > we will be producing a private beta in December targeted at RHEL and > Ubuntu LTS, with support for other platforms following. > > If you are interested in applying to be a beta candidate, you can do so > here. > > http://info.puppetlabs.com/pe-beta.html > > > cheers, > Nigel > > [1] - For those of you who’ve heard me speak, try reading it in > Australian English. If you haven’t, just pretend it’s James Earl > Jones. > > > > -- > Nigel Kersten - Puppet Labs - http://www.puppetlabs.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<puppet-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
